Mother’s Day is a wonderful opportunity to show appreciation and love for all the amazing moms (and mother figures) out there. As educators (and many of us moms ourselves!), we know there’s nothing quite as special as a heartfelt, handmade gift from a child. Whether it’s a thoughtful card, a cute craft, or a personalized…
Nurturing a Love for the Earth from the Start Earth Day isn’t just a calendar event—it’s a powerful teaching moment for Kindergarteners to explore how they can help protect our planet. Through age-appropriate lessons and imaginative play, we can guide young learners to practice sustainable habits, and build empathy for the environment. In this post,…
St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect opportunity to add a little extra magic to your Kindergarten classroom! With playful themes like leprechauns, rainbows, and pots of gold, it’s easy to integrate fun, hands-on math and literacy activities that engage young learners☘️ Keep scrolling to see my favourite St. Patrick’s Day centers for Kindergarten that not…
Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to reinforce friendship, kindness and love in a Kindergarten classroom! Scroll through this post if you need ideas for Valentine’s day centers for Kindergarten that will keep your students busy and engaged while also strengthening their fine motor, literacy and math skills! 1. Build & Trace Valentine’s Day Words…
Hi friends! Today I’m rounding up some of my favourite winter themed centre ideas for Kindergarten to hopefully help you with your January planning! Let’s dive in 🙂 1. Arctic Small World Play Centre (Freebie) This is one of my favourite winter centres and always a hit with my classes too! I bought this set…
Hi friends! Like many of you Christmas is my favourite holiday and a favourite of many of our students! High interest typically means high engagement so I love incorporating Christmas themes into our centres when I can do it in a hands on, meaningful way that supports their learning! I hope you are able to…
I love planning fun Halloween activities because our students are typically so excited for Halloween and the themed activities make literacy and math centres extra engaging for them🧡 New to K or just looking for some fresh new ideas? Then keep reading for some of my favourite Halloween themed centre activities for Kindergarten! 1. Give…
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday and are getting back into the swing of things at school! We had a great holiday 🙂 Both kids didn’t want to go back to school but they have been rotating being sick so one or the other has been home most of the month…
Hi friends! November was a bit busy (good busy but busy) and I couldn’t start a blog post for it in time so here is I’m sharing all of the new stuff I shared over on Instagram and/or Facebook and TPT in this blog post and I’ll also be adding December stuff as they come…
Hi friends! I was playing catch up with the September post, so here is my October recap post! I’ll add things to this post if I share anything else new on Instagram/TPT before the end of October, but I wanted to make sure I posted this before then since the freebie in this post is…
I love sharing lessons and activities that have worked well in my Kindergarten classroom to provide you with engaging ideas and to help you cut down your planning time!
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